Mouse Delta

[Alan Alston]

Just an idea for the guys at Macromedia - before you ship Flash 3:

We develop a couple of screensavers for clients, mostly in Flash, 

which are then taken into Director via the Flash Asset Xtra, and 

saved as a projector, and then into Cinemac.

Average file size: +- 2 megs.

However, now with the Flash standalone engin, it is possible to use 

the same Flash file, create a Flash standalone player, ship that 

straight into Cinemac to create the same, although much slimmer, 

screensaver.

Average file size: 500k !

We bypass Director and the Flash Asset Xtra!!!

At the same time we can set playback to fullscreen, regardless of the 

monitor size of the client, via the fs-action!!

Only one, small problem arises:

To quit the initial Director/Flash screensaver I scripted the 

projector to quit on any mouse interaction, as well as turning the 

cursor invisible.

(conventional screensaver ethics)

 However with the new Flash screensaver, there 

is no action yet that picks up mouseDelta to automatically quit.

(My other option is obviously to build a quit button.)

How about it Macromedia, the actions are great, how about building in 

one or two more?


Regards

alanarmadillo [dot] co [dot] za

Cape Town. SA

Flash the Future!


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